Ask Your Mama
Friday, March 13, 2009
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Langston Hughes’ poem "Ask Your Mama" was published in 1961 and it was a mix of high culture and street talk on black life, music and culture. Hughes wrote an imaginary soundtrack in the margin of that poem and gave it the subtitle of "Twelve Moods for Jazz." Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman joins us to talk about turning those notes into a multi-media piece in collaboration with soprano Jessye Norman and the hip-hop group The Roots.
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Hi John
Don't forget about RAGE ARIAS in Opera Seria!!
AMazing stuff. Find some on the Farinelli soundtrack if nowhere else is obvious.
Cheers,
Peggy Monastra
The best revenge/wrath song in my mind is "The Cell Block Tango" from the musical "Chicago" when all the women in prison line up and explain what they did that lead them to being locked up.
"He ran into my knife! He ran into my knife 10 times!!!"
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